1.   But landless movement head Jose Rainha, a popular leader who provoked screams from young girls when he appeared at the top of the sound truck, disagreed.

2.   Gunmen shot and killed a landless movement leader in southern Brazil, police said Monday.

3.   He agreed to meet with leaders of the landless movement Friday to work out an agreement that would end land invasions while speeding up land reform.

4.   Joao Pedro Stedile, one of the leaders of the landless movement, stood outside a police cordon with a few hundred protesters.

5.   The landless movement promotes the takeover of land it considers unproductive as a way to pressure the government into speeding up its agrarian reform program.

6.   The landless movement spearheads large-scale occupations of land it considers unproductive in order to pressure the government into speeding up its agrarian reform program.

7.   The landless movement organizes efforts by dozens of families to invade uncultivated lands to pressure the government to speed up a land reform program.

8.   In response, leaders of a landless movement over the weekend threatened to invade a sprawling farm owned by Cardoso.